Rare Earths and the PM’s US Visit

Extract from opinion piece today in The Australian by Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor:

‘MORRISON SHOULD USE TRUMP TIME TO TALK DEFENCE
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Morrison has three generic objectives: maximise what Australia gets in terms of Trump’s own presidency, maximise institutional linkages that can outlive Trump, and don’t get too off-side with the Democrats.

Specifically, Morrison will propose closer co-operation in the production of rare-earth minerals, which Australia has significant deposits of. At the moment rare earths are dominated by China. This is part of the grinding, difficult, slow but urgently necessary task of the West establishing secure non-China production lines in critical national security areas such as rare earths, telecommunications , artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
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